For a fantastic sandwich piled high with fresh meat and fixin’s or a local steak to take home for dinner try a hidden treasure known as Willow Glen Meats and Smokehouse. Six years ago the Coletti family, namely Johnny Chiala, purchased Ralphs custom smoke house and renamed it Willow Glen Meats. Johnny is also the proprietor of of Los Gatos Meats and his son in law Jeff Coletti runs the Willow Glen smokehouse. Both Willow Glen Meats and Los Gatos Meats have a great reputaion for creating custom and local steaks, smoking meats, preparing meat from local farmers and wild game processing . If you are looking for a new place for lunch or would like to pick up something for dinner, shop local and give it a try.

What is Willow Glen Charm?

Willow Glen is a quaint neighborhood just south of downtown San Jose with tree-lined streets, a “Main Street”-style downtown, and eclectic historic architecture. It all adds up to what locals call “Willow Glen Charm.”

Whether you’re new to Willow Glen or have lived here all your life, we hope you’ll find this site informative and entertaining. If you have any suggestions, or stories or events you think we should cover, let us know!

Who’s Behind Willow Glen Charm?

Willow Glen Charm is a blog and Facebook page run by Holly and Greg Barr, long-time Willow Glen residents with a passion for connecting and serving this great community.